Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8092856 | Method for patterning a medical device The present disclosure provides a method for forming a color pattern on a medical device. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7166154 | System and a method for an edible, optically invisible ink An ink, wherein the ink includes a jettable vehicle, and a colorant configured to fluoresce in a visible light range when exposed to an ultraviolet (UV) light, wherein the ink is edible, and wherein the ink is invisible when viewed under white light conditions. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6946156 | Process for enrobing a core A process for enrobing a core, such as a tablet core, uses a coating that is made of a patterned film having portions that are visually distinct (e.g, differently colored) from one another and having a transition line segment between these visually distinct portions... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6902609 | Pearlescent film coating systems and substrates coated therewith The present invention is directed to film coating systems for use on oral dosage forms such as compressed tablets and orally-ingestible substrates which have improved pearlescent qualities. The film coating systems can be applied either directly to a substrate or af... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903841 | Decorating system for edible items A system for creating a decorative edible item from a selected image. The system includes at least one image source, such as a scanner and/or a library of stored images, a controller unit and a printer. An edible media is inserted into the printer. The user then sel... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6863833 | Microfabricated apertures for supporting bilayer lipid membranes The invention provides microfabricated silicon substrates and devices having extremely small apertures (termed “nanoapertures”) and methods for producing such nanoapertures. The devices have a nanoaperture (which may have a diameter ranging from about a few mill... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6792333 | Product management method, program for performing product management, and storage medium having recorded the program therein A product management method for securing interests of a just rightful claimant of an intellectual property right is provided. The product management method is a product management method for a display module including a circuit formed by integrating a transistor whi... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6652903 | Dry-copying method for producing flat, individually dosed preparations of active agents A method for metering active ingredient in powder form onto a predetermined area is characterized in that the active ingredient is transferred as electrically charged powder to a roll with the opposite charge, the active ingredient transferred to the r... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6627247 | Method of providing a marking on a substrate Method of applying a marking or image on a substrate which is provided with a coating by means of a sol-gel process. After the application of a layer of a sol-gel solution on the substrate, an ink which is compatible with the sol-gel is applied on the wet... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6395298 | Gellan gum tablet coating A tablet coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating com... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6248391 | Bright white film coatings and film coating compositions therefor A dry film coating composition used to make a bright white film coating for nutritional supplements, pharmaceutical tablets, and the like, comprises dextrose, an auxiliary film-former, and titanium dioxide. Optionally, but advantageously, the coating comp... | 06/19/2001 |
| 5789014 | Method of manufacturing a solid preparation coated with non-solvent coating A method of manufacturing a solid preparation coated with a non-solvent coating which is prepared by feeding a polymeric powder directly as coating agent while continuously spraying a solid medicine with an atomized mixture of a liquid substance, which ha... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5688697 | Stabilized microspheres and methods of preparation Stabilized microspherical particles having hydrophobic liquid cores prepared as oil-in-water microemulsions. The particles are stabilized by a surface layer comprising an amphiphilic compound and may be functionalized to allow covalent coupling of a ligan... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5580735 | Stabilized microspheres and methods of preparation Stabilized microspherical particles having hydrophobic liquid cores prepared as oil-in-water microemulsions. The particles are stabilized by a surface layer comprising an amphiphilic compound and may be functionalized to allow covalent coupling of a ligan... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5569484 | Process for producing a flat active substance administration form A process is provided for the production of a flat administration form with a dosable portion of drugs or of a flat-shaped device for the dosable release of volatile substances, such as aromatic substances, to the ambient air by using high-volatile or the... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5545568 | Solid phase and combinatorial synthesis of compounds on a solid support Methods, compositions, and devices for synthesizing combinatorial libraries of various useful compounds, such as benzodiazepines, prostaglandins, ଲ-turn mimetics and glycerol-derived drugs is described. In order to expediently synthesize such combin... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5512314 | Dye compositions and methods for film coating tablets and the like An improved dye composition for use in coating tablets and the like is constituted by a stable, aqueous suspension containing a water-soluble, nontoxic dye, an opacifying agent which may be titanium dioxide or iron oxide all immobilizing agent for immobil... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5405642 | Method of highlighting intagliations in tablets A method of highlighting intagliations in white or colored coated tablets by spraying onto said tablets a suspension comprising a filling material having a different color, a waxy material and a solvent, and removing the solvent and the excess of filling ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5006362 | Branding pharmaceutical dosage forms, food and confectionery products with aqueous ingestible inks A method of marking forms such as pharmaceutical tablest, capsules, confectionery and food with a water based ingestible ink comprising mixing pigments, a polymer, and optionally a plasticizer into water to form an ink dispersion, and printing the ink dis... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4966771 | Gelatin coated caplets and process for making same A capsule-like medicament, method for producing such medicaments and apparatus. Such medicaments are achieved by individually dipping and drying first one end, and then the other end, of each caplet to provide a coating which is smoother and easier to swa... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4849246 | Process for producing an administration or dosage form for drugs, reagents or other active ingredients A process for producing an administration or dosage form of drugs, reagents or other active ingredients. A watersoluble foil composed of starch, gelatin, glycerin and/or sorbit and if necessary other additives is coated by a roll coating process with a la... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4820524 | Gelatin coated caplets and process for making same A novel capsule-like medicament, method for producing such medicaments and apparatus are disclosed. The method provides a procedure for coating solid cores, such as caplets, with gelatinous coatings to produce a shiny, capsule-like medicament. Such medica... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4816298 | Method of making a granular, cold water dispersible coating composition A method of making a cold water dispersible granular composition comprising a plasticizer and thermally moldable polymer, for example hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, carboxymethylcellulose, or hydroxy ethylcellulose. The method com... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4548825 | Method for ink-jet printing on uncoated tablets or uncoated tablet cores This invention is directed to a method for the non-contact application of letters or symbols to the exterior surfaces of uncoated tablets or uncoated tablet cores, which comprises dotting color solution or suspension by means of an ink-jet printer in spec... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4513019 | Film-forming compositions for enveloping solid forms, particularly pharmaceutical or food products or seeds, and products obtained, coated with said compositions The present invention relates to film-forming compositions for enveloping solid forms such as pharmaceutical or food products or seeds, wherein they comprise, by weight: 15 to 85% of a cellulosic film-forming substance, 10 to 70% of at least one alpha-cellulos... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4456629 | Powdered wax, tablet coated therewith and method A novel powdered wax is provided which is especially adapted for use as a polishing agent for tablets and as a substrate for print carried by such tablets. A method for forming such powdered wax is also provided which includes the steps of milling pieces ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4456628 | Process for film-coating a particulate solid, and emulsions for conducting the process A process of coating a particulate medicinal agent; comprising the application to said medicinal agent of a liquid composition containing a water-insoluble film-forming agent, a lipophilic solvent, a hydrophilic solvent and water, said liquid composition ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4322449 | Pharmaceuticals having dotted active ingredients and a method and apparatus for the preparation thereof A method for the preparation of pharmaceuticals which comprises using a piezoelectric dosing system to dot liquid, dissolved or suspended active substance onto a pharmaceutical carrier.... | 03/30/1982 |
